UNDER THE GULF COAST SUN
By SKIP RHUDY
Romance / Coming of Age / Surfing
Publisher: Stoney Creek Publishing
Pages: 266
Publication Date: April 22, 2025
*** SYNOPSIS ***
This coming-of-age tale set against the sun-soaked beaches of 1970s Port Aransas, Texas, is a love letter to the people and culture of the Texas coast and the enduring allure of the Gulf of Mexico.
Eighteen-year-old Connor O’Reilly isn’t ready to leave his beloved hometown until the tourist girl he met the previous summer, Kassie Hernandez, returns to Port Aransas for one final vacation before college. Their tumultuous summer fling is wrecked by a freak accident in which Connor is lost at sea. His long years of surfing and fishing in the Gulf, as well as Kassie’s desperation to reunite with him, are pitted against the enormity and utter indifference of the sea.
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*** ABOUT THE AUTHOR ***
Skip Rhudy grew up surfing in Port Aransas, Texas. He has translated poetry and prose from German to English, and translated Wolfgang Hilbig’s novella Die Weiber for his master’s thesis in 1990 at the University of Texas. His short stories were published in numerous small press magazines in the mid-1990s, and his novella One Punk Summer was published in 1993 and reprinted in 2021.
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This seems like a fun book — though I am always a little worried about books that cross into that new adult romance range. Sometimes a bit too steamy for my liking! I’m looking forward to reading the reviews during this book campaign. Thanks for sharing!